Installing Spim/Xspim

Spim is A MIPS32 Simulator freely available for Linux, Mac and Windows. The process for installing the software from source is not as nice as we would expect it to be.
Download source code from:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/SPIM/spim.tar.gz
You will probably need to get Bison and Flex:

sudo apt-get install bison flex

Don’t forget:

sudo apt-get install libxaw7-dev

Otherwise you’ll get “X11/Xaw/Cardinals.h: No such [...]

Jan 05, 2009 | 3 Comments »

BBC video: Cantor, Gödel, Turing

I found this nice video about probably the most famous logician and early computer scientists of all times. The documentary has this quality that we are expecting from the BBC.
Dangerous Knowledge Part 1
Dangerous Knowledge Part 2
Even if the concepts are quite deep, they’ve been able to make it accessible to anybody.

Nov 28, 2008 | Have your say »